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Sollozzo killed Luca Brasi because he correctly deduced that Brasi was a plant sent by Don Vito Corleone. Knowing that Brasi was fanatically loyal and the family's most dangerous enforcer, Sollozzo needed to neutralize him before attempting to assassinate the Don. In the film, Sollozzo lures Brasi to a meeting, stabs his hand to the bar with a knife (pinning him), while an accomplice garrotes him from behind.
Luca Brasi was killed by Virgil Sollozzo for two primary, interconnected reasons:
Luca Brasi was performing a highly dangerous, deep-cover infiltration mission for the Corleone family. Don Vito Corleone had tasked Brasi with feigning discontent with the Corleones and requesting a meeting to offer his services to the Tattaglia family and Sollozzo.
Sollozzo, known as "The Turk" and a highly suspicious operator, was not fooled. He was already planning the assassination of Don Vito Corleone (which occurred almost immediately after Brasi’s death). Brasi represented the Corleone's most loyal and frightening enforcer. If Brasi was allowed to remain "in" on Sollozzo's operation, he would instantly report back to Vito, ruining the attempt on the Don's life. Sollozzo had to eliminate Brasi to ensure that his key security asset was neutralized before he struck the Don.
Brasi was given access to the inner circle of the alliance planning the Don's assassination. Sollozzo needed to silence Brasi before he could relay crucial information—specifically, that the Tattaglias were aligned with Sollozzo and that an attack was imminent. Killing Brasi served as a necessary precautionary step to guarantee the success of the attempt on Vito Corleone.
Brasi was killed during a supposed meeting with Sollozzo and members of the Tattaglia family.
He was lured to a small club or bar. While he was seated at a table, discussing the "alliance," a man held Brasi’s right hand down firmly with a knife (or possibly spiking his hand to the table, depending on the interpretation, though the movie shows his hand simply being held fast), distracting him and preventing him from reaching his own weapon or defending himself.
Simultaneously, a garrote—a wire or rope used for strangulation—was swiftly looped around Brasi’s neck from behind, and he was strangled to death. This brutal murder was conducted to demonstrate Sollozzo’s ruthless resolve and send a clear, terrifying message to the Corleone family.
The summary correctly surmises Sollozzo wasn't fooled but misses the specific dialogue where Sollozzo confirms this to Tom Hagen ('You think I'd be fooled by a man like Luca Brasi?').